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Pandemonia

by The Bathers

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Twenty-two 04:00
You were 22 when I first saw you with your painter's smile and your eyes of blue I’ll tell it how it is or something like it was I thought i heard applause when the tight-lipped boy eyed the star-lit girl and the star-lit girl has brightened up his world she was 22 only 22 from the twilit gardens in the summer rain you took me to your house you made me laugh again I’ll tell it like it is or something like it was I swear I heard applause when the tight-lipped boy eyed the star-lit girl and the star-lit girl has brightened up his world she was only 22 only 22 when you're 22 and you got your life front of you when you're 22 and in love
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Caught in a memory of a dream I once had I cartwheel I'm tongue-tied washing with duck eggs So here they come now caught in the night trains laugh with confusion ask if you feel the same are you the little band? without the little band there’s nothing left to believe in everything is shaken and the thing is this sooner or later we all run out of ways to hurt the ones that we love if I could just sit here and learn how to laugh learn how to be tough with the Belle sisters I saw her this evening way up on Ashton Lane I could tell she was leaving she didn’t even call my name she held out her hands when she held out her hands she was holding an accidental halo hunger and the horses head they rise up before me for good love…good love can always go bad sooner or later we all run out of ways to hurt the ones we love is there time to just sit here and learn how to laugh learn how to be tough with the Belle sisters
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Goosesteps goosesteps down lonely streets where pandemonia rules everyone in Bohemia lord if you’d just seen her then margarita changes everything tequlia mockingbird tequila mockingbird darling you broke your word what else could you do tequila mockingbird is a shocking bird tequila gives us wings to fly we feel her and tonight we’ll die and life gets too crazy when you least expect it and the sailor boys search for the sweetest toys two punch-drunk crazies off the Reeperbahn at sunrise tequlia mockingbird tequila mockingbird darling you broke your word what else could you do? tequila mockingbird is a shocking bird but tequila gives us wings to fly. we feel her and tonight we’ll die and life gets too crazy when you least expect it and margarita changes everything
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Those kisses we gave high on Huntly for a girl with lilies on her stairs I swear are still hanging there remember you, remember me one fabulous evening high above the trees when the moon seems to shine for us seems to smile Sinatra sings over riddle strings and quiet in that instant you said “ follow me” Babe you know I would until the end of the line You sigh really move and glide riding up St Vincent in the sun finally knowing you were the one for me and me for you we kiss and sway and skies are blue or when the night is young and new love has only just begun we’re high on Dumbarton Rock on a perfect afternoon or just a beautiful afternoon the blue ardour of your eyes speaks to me of the sweetness of your soul I wish love could always be this good I wish I could wake every day this way Always hold you in my arms or in bold arabesques sway I was the man you loved to love I was the man who slipped off their gloves but could never see what you can’t miss
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Let’s all play baccarat in pearls with the king of knaves or the jack from hell chase and purr with a Venus in furs as if in the morning you would be her How soft she was, how soft she was I had nothing to lose except a lost cause I keep moving on try to get some thrills Try hanging out with the Trocadero Girls I’m going to hang with the Trocadero Girls boy you look strange sang a femme fatale for a moment or two I feel under her spell She took me home I donned her white tutu as if in the morning she could be you she could be you and I could be me How soft she was, how soft she was I had nothing to lose except a lost cause I keep moving on try to get some thrills Try hanging out with the Trocadero Girls I’m going to hang with The Trocadero Girls
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something precious has been destroyed; just shattered you attempt to make repairs but the cracks are still visible. the original strength will never be restored, the orignal beauty appears only fleetingly on its’ surface a painful reminder of that which once was it was within your power to nurture that precious thing; to protect it. quite simply you treated it carelessly. and now it’s lost to you and you find yourself lost without it.
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Caught in a Crombie on a dead-end street I had it all I had the world at my feet lost myself in the fog of retreat I hear the rain sound in the shallow bays hear the wind sing thru’ the yellow hay I found heartbreak at the break of day I was breaking As Madame Rochester walked out in flares greets a stranger at the foot of the stairs A fallen angel for the devil may care A make-shift lawyer and a racketeer raises writs and some hollow cheers It’s way past midnight it will cost you my dear Listen darling let’s make this summer long now the wind and the rain are long gone you can kiss me on your old chaise-longue We’ll get the hood down we’ll drive to the coast find it all when they said it was lost recover happiness at any cost Caught in a Crombie on a dead-end street I had it all I had the world at my feet lost myself in the fog of retreat I hear the rain sound in the shallow bays hear the wind sing thru’ the yellow hay I found heartbreak at the break of day I was breaking are you breaking?
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The Captives 05:30
I heard your voice cry "it's all in vain" as we ran thru' the downtown lanes I said it's too late babe we know we're thru' but there's one last thing I can promise you one night when the stars are shining I will lift you up In all the sweetness of our deceit ww were the architects of our own defeat it's gone midnight and now we must part but I'll always carry you in my heart One night when you think your world is ending I will lift you up In all her sleekness just like a dream I'm sure love slipped away unseen I stood in her slipstream but I didn't see her go I was captive on another shore I heard my voice cry "this is all insane" above the roar of a southbound train sometimes it's cold here and nothing works but I'll always carry you in my heart If I could take you where the crowd can't reach us I will meet you love One night when you think your world is ending I will wake you up I will let you know just how sweet you were
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Dreamless 03:00
Tonight I am in danger something on my mind I lost you little stranger I was always too unkind and you might find Love is always faded splendour love has lost us precious stranger in love I was the younger pretender but indifference tonight couldn’t care less you might find me dreamless Lord we are in danger if you could give me a sign that you can hear me tonight but you couldn’t care less Tonight will find me dreamless
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Last night I loved you when you opened your heart and let yourself sing I said so long so long to the best thing in my life I got no reason to deny that I’m out of my mind it’s way past my season but that’s alright it’s just a Saturday night another Saturday night and I still love you with all my soul as I walk in the freezing cold I wish the healing had begun I’m outside the station set to ride no destination in mind you can call it treason that’s alright anything you like Last night I loved you when you opened your heart and let yourself sing so long so long to the best thing in my life
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“It’s the little phase from the Phantom sonata but I mustn’t listen” All the memories from when she was in love with me which until that moment I had succeeded in keeping invisible in the depths of misery were deceived by this sudden reflection of a season of love whose sun I supposed had dawned again awoken from their slumber had taken wing and risen to sing maddeningly in my ears without pity for my present desolation the forgotten strains of happiness.
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I’ve never loved nobody like I love you babe your ever winning smile and the paintings that you made Sometimes I picture you and the gardens over Kew and it feels like summer again summer’s back and when the longing comes when the longing comes I’ll await your sweet return and when the sundown comes yes when the sundown comes I’ll await your sweet return will you make your sweet return? will you make it back? Some nights I just pray for love but it’s alright It’s just sundown and longing
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Supernatural 02:48
That night seemed almost supernatural to belong to a mysterious world to which you may never return again once it’s doors are closed And I could just distinguish standing motionless before that scene of remembered happiness a wretched figure who filled me with such pity because at first I didn’t recognise him, that I had to lower my eyes in case anyone should see that they were filled with tears. It was myself.
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Pandemonia 14:22
Friendship in love should be enough when disillusion has caught you up but it isn’t when Pandemonia stakes her claim Heartbreak I know you’ve had your fill but I can hear you laughing still yet I loved her Pandemonia was her name Furies in the mansions serpents in the wells every chance of happiness surely gone to hell though tonight we feel broken tomorrow we’ll grow stronger still Pandemonia you fought in vain Lost in the search for the holy girl you think you’ve found her your flags unfurl but you didn’t Pandemonia you loved in vain If I must be so despised I’ll shrug it off I’m not surprised yes I chose her Pandemonia was her name Furies in the mansions serpents in the wells every chance of happiness surely gone to hell though tonight we feel broken tomorrow we’ll grow stronger still If you fell in love with me there’s nothing I couldn’t be I would disown her for Pandemonia I was insane Yet love I know must surely die but then again not between you and I to endless summer! to Pandemonia it’s all a game C’est la petite phrase de la sonate du phantome “n’écoutons pas!” Tous ses souvenirs du temps où elle était éprise de lui Et qu’il avait réussi jusqu’à ce jour à maintenir invisibles Dans les profondeurs de son être Trompés par ce brusque rayon du temps d’amour Qu’ils crurent revenu; s’étaient réveillés et, À tire-d’aile, étaient remontés lui chanter éperdument Sans pitié pour son infortune présente, Les refrains oubliés du bonheur Dans cette nuit qui lui avait semblé presque supernaturelle Et qui en effet appartenait bien à un monde mystérieux Où on ne peut jamais revenir quand les portes s’en sont refermées Et il aperçut, immobile en face de ce bonheur revécu Un malheureux qui lui fit pitié: il dut baisser les yeux Pour qu’on ne vit pas qu’ils étaient plein de larmes C’était lui-même I thought of what might be in store for me: To try to forget her seemed to me to be painful, But sensible, and for the first time possible, Even perhaps easy. Friendship in love should be enough when disillusion has caught you up but it isn’t when Pandemonia stakes her claim If you fell in love with me there’s nothing I couldn’t be I would disown her for Pandemonia I was insane Quelque chose de précieux a été détruit Simplement brisé Tu essaies de recoller les morceaux Mais les fissures sont toujours visibles On ne pourra jamais retrouver la force initiale La beauté d’origine apparaît Parfois fugitivement Sous le vernis Un souvenir douloureux de ce qui a été Il ne tenait qu’à toi De nourrir cette chose précieuse De la protéger Mais tu l’as simplement négligéé Et maintenant Tu te retrouves perdu Sans elle
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